Archives

On February 26, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in Janus v. American Federation State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 (known as Janus v. AFSCME). While [...]

The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported a new case of Legionnaires’ disease in the state. This recent case joins two more infections identified in the past month at the Illinois [...]

The Kentucky House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would mark the biggest overhaul of the state’s workers’ compensation benefits system in decades. If the bill is signed into law, [...]

In Illinois, if you have been injured because of somebody else’s negligence (or fault), whether in a car accident, because of a defective condition on that person’s property, or in some other [...]

You’ve just been in a car accident. You’re shaken, confused, and maybe injured, but you still have the presence of mind to wait for a police officer to take your statement and the statement of [...]

Nearly a year after his death from surgical complications, the family of late actor Bill Paxton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his surgeon and the hospital where he was treated. [...]

The population of the United States is rapidly aging, with older people now accounting for one in seven Americans, or nearly 50 million. Moreover, the number of older Americans is predicted to [...]

A new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety finds that drowsy driving is a widespread problem, playing a much larger role in traffic crashes than federal statistics suggest. Nearly 10 [...]

A US judge in San Francisco recently ruled that a former driver for Grubhub Inc. was an independent contractor and not an employee. The Grubhub lawsuit is the first case of its kind against a gig [...]

Workers’ compensation is a system of benefits that is mandated by the state of Illinois for all injured workers employed in the state, other than Federal and interstate commerce railroad workers. [...]